Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Category: Articles

  • Deconstructing Jaco: Genetic Heritage of an Afrikaner

    Deconstructing Jaco: Genetic Heritage of an Afrikaner Annals of Human Genetics Volume 71, Issue 5 (September 2007) pages 674–688 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2007.00363.x J. M. Greeff, Professor of Genetics University of Pretoria It is often assumed that Afrikaners stem from a small number of Dutch immigrants. As a result they should be genetically homogeneous, show founder effects…

  • Blood Simple: The politics of miscegenation

    The “Negro problem,” wrote Norman Podhoretz in 1963, would not be solved unless color itself disappeared: “and that means not integration, it means assimilation, it means—let the brutal word come out—miscegenation.”

  • Up Front: Brent Staples

    Up Front: Brent Staples Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2011-09-02 The Editors Brent Staples, who reviews Randall Kennedy’s “Persist­ence of the Color Line” in this issue, is working on a history of mixed-race identity in the United States. “One of the things that interested me in the last campaign,” Staples wrote in an…

  • The Too Black, Too White Presidency

    The Too Black, Too White Presidency The New York Times 2011-09-02 Brent Staples Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. 322 pp. The next time you see Barack Obama gliding into a White House press conference, take note of that jazzy walk. It…

  • “Are You Black or Are You Jewish?”: The New Identity Challenge

    “Are You Black or Are You Jewish?”: The New Identity Challenge Lilith Magazine Fall 1996 pages 21-29 Sarah Blustain Two or three times a week, on the streets of San Francisco, complete strangers walk up to Lisa Feldstein and I ask, “What are you?” She’s not Indian, South American, Puerto Rican or—her favorite suggestion—French. The…

  • The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire

    These epigraphs should be considered heretical to the project of the contemporary multiracial movement in the United States Insofar as its proponents and intellectuals speak of the ‘the end(s) of race’, the concept of multiraciality prides itself on the trouble it supposedly causes to the white supremacist rage for order, that is, its ostensible violation…

  • Emory and CNN Launch Public Dialogue Series

    Emory and CNN Launch Public Dialogue Series The Emory Wheel 2011-09-02 Amanda Serfozo Emory University hosted an inaugural event in partnership with CNN on Wednesday evening that aims to facilitate discourse related to the results of the 2010 Census and its reflection of new population trends in America.   CNN Dialogues—an ongoing colloquium with panels…

  • “A Race of Mules”: Mixed-Bloods in Western American Fiction

    “A Race of Mules”: Mixed-Bloods in Western American Fiction The Canadian Journal of Native Studies Volume 15, Number 1 (1995) ISSN  0715-3244 pages 61-74 Brian Hubner The regional literature of the American west includes a wide variety of characters. One character is hard to find, however: the Métis or mixed blood, for these novels lack…

  • Shades of Fraternity: Creolization and the Making of Citizenship in French India, 1790–1792

    Shades of Fraternity: Creolization and the Making of Citizenship in French India, 1790–1792 French Historical Studies Volume 31, Number 4 (2008) pages 581-607 DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2008-007 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia On October 16, 1790, a group of topas men wrote a petition to the Colonial Assembly at Pondichéry, protesting…

  • Historicizing Hybridity and the Politics of Location: Three Early Colonial Indian Narratives

    Historicizing Hybridity and the Politics of Location: Three Early Colonial Indian Narratives Journal of Intercultural Studies Volume 28, Issue 1 (2007) pages 143-155 DOI: 10.1080/07256860601082996 Adrian Carton Centre for Cultural Research University of Western Sydney, Australia From White Mughals to Vikram Seth, novels, historical blockbusters and more nuanced anthropological and postcolonial critiques have exposed the…